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The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Used - Very Good. 1927. 0th Edition. hardcover. Cloth. Octavo. 231 pp. Moderate shelf wear to boards. Bookplate to front pastedown. Newspaper clipping pasted to ffep. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Americana & Regional History).

Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1927. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Hardcover. Fair/No DJ present. xxii, 23-231 p. 2 port. (incl. front. ) maps, facsimiles. Footnotes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling, edges worn through cloth in places. Spine frayed. Ink marks at top of fep Quaife was born in Nashua, Iowa. He received his education at Grinnell College, the University of Missouri and the University of Chicago. He was head of the Wisconsin Historical Society and later secretary-editor at the Detroit Public Library's Burton Collection. He was also a lecturer at Wayne State University and the University of Detroit. He served as editor of the Lakeside Classics historical series from 1916 to 1957. The siege of Fort Vincennes (also known as the siege of Fort Sackville or the Battle of Vincennes) was a Revolutionary War frontier battle fought in present-day Vincennes, Indiana won by a militia led by American commander George Rogers Clark over a British garrison led by… Read More

Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1927. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Hardcover. Fair./No DJ present. xxii, 23-231 p. 2 port. (incl. front. ) maps, facsimiles. 23 cm. Index. Cover has significant wear and soiling, edges worn through cloth in places. Spine label removed (personal library? ) Small holes in cloth at spine. Name of Robert Corsser on front cover. This may have been the copy of Robert Crosser, Member of Congress from Ohio from 1915 to 1919, and again from 1923 to 1955. Quaife was born in Nashua, Iowa. He received his education at Grinnell College, the University of Missouri and the University of Chicago. He was head of the Wisconsin Historical Society and later secretary-editor at the Detroit Public Library's Burton Collection. He was also a lecturer at Wayne State University and the University of Detroit. He served as editor of the Lakeside Classics historical series from 1916 to 1957. The siege of Fort Vincennes (also known as the siege of Fort Sackville or the… Read More